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The American Journal of Mens Health conducted a study to look at the impact of social support and social capital on mens health, and specifically getting black men to undergo prostate cancer screening.

​Social Support: Speaks to and recognizes the increases in health care and screenings when approached as a supporting collective. Older men have consistently reported that family, religious organizations, civic organizations and partner are influential on a black mans decision to prostate cancer screening. People working as a team and the value of relationships.

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Social Capital: The importance to promoting better health behavior by working together as a means to share information and resources. By working of as a community each individual has the ability to bring value of personal experiences and referred services.

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Each of these mechanisms offer ways that men might be reached with information about screenings, feel social influences that encourage screening or that allow access to screening.

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Team Prostate creates teams that work within a closed social network that inspires and encourage accountability to each other. To provide resources and promote discussions.